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1700 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1700.

Events[edit]

• February 1 – Richard Bentley becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1]
• Early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.^[2][3]
• May 5 – Within days of John Dryden's death on May 1, his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.

New books[edit]

Fiction[edit]

• Aphra Behn (died 1689) – Histories, Novels, and Translations (fiction and nonfiction)^[4]
• Tom Brown – Amusements Serious and Comical^[4]
• Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras – Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan
• Peter Anthony Motteux, editor – The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha, translated by several hands, Volume 1 (Volumes 2–4 published in 1712 in the third edition)^[4]

Drama[edit]

• Anonymous – Caledonia, or the Pedlar Turned Merchant
• Abel Boyer – Achilles; or, Iphigenia in Aulis: a tragedy^[4]
• William Burnaby – The Reformed Wife
• Susannah Centlivre – The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice: A tragedy^[4]
• Colley Cibber – The Tragical History of King Richard III^[4]
• William Congreve – The Way of the World, a comedy performed in March^[4]
• John Dennis – Iphigenia: A tragedy, performed in December 1699^[4]
• George Farquhar – The Constant Couple
• Charles Gildon – Measure for Measure
• Charles Hopkins – Friendship Improv'd; or, The Female Warriour: A tragedy, performed November 7, 1699^[4]
• Francis Manning – The Generous Choice
• John Oldmixon – The Grove, or Love's Paradise published ("semi-opera", music by Henry Purcell)
• William Philips – St. Stephen's Green
• Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated
• Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother
• Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April^[4]
• John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous; performed in April^[4]

Poetry[edit]

See 1700 in poetry

• Richard Blackmore – A Satyr Against Wit^[4]
• Thomas Brown – A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral, verse^[4]
• Samuel Cobb – Poetae Britannici^[4]
• Daniel Defoe – The Pacificator^[4]
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Fama y obras póstumas del Fénix de México^[5]
• William King – The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)^[4]
• John Pomfret – Reason^[4]
• John Tutchin – The Foreigners, published anonymously (verse satire on William III's Dutch ministers; Daniel Defoe replied in The True-Born Englishmanin1701))^[4]
• Ned Ward – The Reformer^[4]

Non-fiction[edit]

• Mary Astell – Some Reflections upon Marriage^[4]
• James Brome – Travels over England, Scotland, and Wales
• Jeremy Collier – A Second Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage &c (See 1698 in literature)^[4]
• Eugenia (authorship unknown) – The Female Advocate: Or, a plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women...
• Francis Moore – Vox Stellarum: An almanac for 1701^[4] (first in a series of yearly "almanacs" of astrology)
• Sir William Temple – Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, and Other Ministers of State, Both at Home and Abroad (putatively edited by Jonathan Swift)^[4]
• Pavao Ritter Vitezović – Croatia Rediviva
• Ned Ward – A Step to the Bath: With a character of the place, published anonymously^[4]
• Anonymous; perhaps Daniel Defoe – Castration of Popish Ecclesiastics

Births[edit]

• February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher (died 1766)
• May 25 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German theologian (died 1760)
• September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
• November 25 – Kata Bethlen, Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (died 1759)

Deaths[edit]

• January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)^[6]
• March 14 – Henry Killigrew, English clergyman, poet and playwright (born 1613)
• May 12
  • Joseph Athias, Spanish-born publisher of Hebrew Bible (born 1635)
  • John Dryden, English poet (born 1631)
• July – Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659; suicide)
• August 6 – Johann Beer, Austrian author, court official and composer (born 1655; hunting accident)
• August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
• August 22 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (born 1645)^[7]
• Unknown date – Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (born 1664)^[8]

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